The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II by Ian Buruma Groundswell Speaker 2024 Slough House is the Intelligence

Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for failed spies

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BirlinnISBN: 9781780278803Extent: 240 pages

PaperbackPublication: 5 Apr 2018

The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II by Ian Buruma Groundswell Speaker 2024 Slough House is the IntelligenceOn the face of it, the three characters here seem to have little in common aside from the fact that each committed wartime acts that led some to see them as national heroes, and others as villains. All three were mythmakers, larger than life storytellers, for whom the truth was beside the point. Felix Kersten was a plump Finnish pleasure seeker who became Heinrich Himmler's indispensable personal masseur Himmler calling him his 'magic Buddha'. Kersten